Sentence examples for numeric standards from inspiring English sources

A consent decree settled a 2008 lawsuit by the Sierra Club, Florida Wildlife Federation and others against the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to get the E.P.A. to set numeric standards for runoff like fertilizers and animal waste.

Precise "metrics," or numeric standards, on wait times would allow for equitable distribution of screeners among airports, and could create an argument for Congress to allocate more money for the agency, said Stephen D. Van Beek, executive vice president for policy at the North American branch of the Airports Council International, a trade group.

For decades, environmentalists have struggled to hold the Florida Department of Environmental Protection accountable to tough, numeric standards on pollutants.

The U.S. EPA reported TEQ values in the range of 3 718 ng/kg of TCDD and concluded that numeric standards or management practices are not warranted for dioxins and DLCs in land-applied biosolids.

Currently, the U.S. EPA has concluded that numeric standards or management practices are not warranted for dioxins and DLCs in land-applied biosolids since only 6% of the samples were observed to have TEQ values of > 100 ng/kg in the survey.

The gSET by Pearson English is measured on Pearson English's Global Scale of English, designed to be a global numeric standard for the measurement of English language proficiency.

As an alternative management measure, ballast water treatment systems are being developed to meet the BWM Convention's numeric discharge standards, and several systems are available (13 ).

Some experts believe that without setting numeric water-quality standards for nitrogen and phosphorus, efforts to combat nutrient pollution will fail.

The legislation established the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), which requires entities discharging waste into waterways to obtain permits and obliged states to establish either narrative or numeric water quality standards for both aquatic and human health, which the EPA had to approve.

Descriptive variables: frequency, category shares and Fisher's exact test statistics; numeric variables: mean, standard deviation and Student's t-test statistics; SD, standard deviation.

Bit-vector types are used for these internal registers and for performing operations using the bit-vector arithmetic functions from the IEEE standard numeric bit package.